Minna Palmroth (born 10 May 1975)[1] is a professor in computational space physics at the University of Helsinki; her particular area of interest is magnetospheric physics and solar wind - magnetosphere interactions.
[2][3][4][5] Palmroth is from Sahalahti, a small village in the former municipality by the same name near the city of Tampere, Finland.
Palmroth completed her doctoral thesis in English about: Solar wind: magnetosphere interaction as determined by observations and a global MHD Simulation dealt with the interaction of the solar wind (the jet of particles originating from the sun) with the Earth with the magnetosphere based on observational data and a global magnetohydrodynamic simulation.
During the years 2018–2025, she will direct the Finnish Center of Excellence for Sustainable Space Science and Technology.
[7] She has studied the need to address the tons of "space junk" that currently orbits the Earth.